Example Sentences

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Our phones eventually gave us more options, but old-fashioned score-checking got worse.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026

David Lee says his children don’t play videogames at home or have phones, but he and his wife treat them to screen time on vacation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Mobile phones will be banned in all state secondary schools in Edinburgh after the summer holidays.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

People milled around Havana's city center, checking their phones after the tremor which according to Cuban authorities was felt "throughout the entire west of the country."

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

My peeps are the kids who don’t have phones and laptops and money for lunch.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko